According to Microsoft, Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using various tools and frameworks.
From DevOps to business analytics to the Internet of Things, Azure is designed to have users up and running quickly with a scalable, cost-effective solution that works with your existing investments.
This cloud computing service is a big part of Microsoft’s business, and it competes with similar services from Amazon and Google.
Therefore, our Azure Category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
As written in Part 1, policies are used to maintain the state. The Azure portal itself contains a lot of OOTB policies, but you also want to create and deploy your own. This part will go over how to deploy custom policy definitions using Azure DevOps. Script The script shared in part 1 is adjusted to read out… READ MORE
Intro In this part of the blog series, I want to focus on the GitHub Actions I created in the first part and explain what the Action performs. I will also add the vNet resources to my deployments. GitHub Actions explained To explain what is going on in the GitHub Action, I have added comments… READ MORE
Did you know you can connect Azure DevOps audit logs to Microsoft Sentinel and create detection rules and automated responses? You might have heard me speak at the Microsoft Scottish Summit (2022) about this topic and wanted to read more about it or implement this in your organisation. This blog post will walk you through… READ MORE
I’ve had a few people ask me recently about the difference between two resources that are both used for Azure Backup, namely Recovery Services Vault and the newer Backup Vault. Both of these are used by Azure Backup and both can be used to backup your virtual machine data as well as data from some other Azure services… READ MORE
Everything you need to know about getting started in Azure DevOps
Monitoring your cloud and hybrid workloads, networks, connectivity, applications, and more, is not trivial. Should you continue using the existing monitoring platform and tools or replace them? Should you extend with cloud-native capabilities? How do you design the monitoring platform and how do you enable monitoring cross workloads like web apps, containers, VMs, and more?… READ MORE
Selecting a partition key for your Cosmos DB is one of the most important choices you need to make for your Cosmos DB project. You really need to take your time and have a plan for your project. Where is this application will be in 1 year? 5 years? How much data are you planning… READ MORE
Changes to your Azure resources are quite common, and they are difficult to identify. Until now. Microsoft recently released (in preview) the ability to detect change events using Azure Resource Graph. Meaning you do not have to decipher the administrative events in the activity log of your resources. Much like the change tracking solution for Azure VMs.… READ MORE
What if I told you just using multi-factor authentication (MFA) wasn’t enough anymore? The Lapsus$ hacking group, who were at least partially made up of a group of teenagers in the UK, took a very targeted hacking approach. They used password stuffing to try to breach the password credentials of power users within organizations they were targeting.… READ MORE
The new Azure Functions SDK for Isolated Worker (process) has been introduced around .NET 5. While it’s still in flux despite being GA-ed, it’s gaining more and more popularity. And yet, there are still some sharp edges you should be careful with and validate that everything you’re using with the older SDK, In-Process, is offered… READ MORE
